Fewer young people are smoking, but overall smoking levels remain level. What's stopping smoking levels in all ages dropping further?

Former Attorney-General Nicola Roxon backed Australia’s plain tobacco packaging legislation at the time of its 2012 challenge in the High Court. The latest World Trade Organisation dispute is the third major challenge on legal or trade grounds.
Lukas Coch/AAPMay 5, 2017

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has reportedly backed Australia’s laws on plain tobacco packaging implemented from December 2012. The apparent decision marks the end of the last of three cases brought…

In 2012, in the early days of the rise of e-cigarettes, Kingsley Wheaton, Director of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs at British American Tobacco, said “Our core business is, and will remain in, tobacco…

Universities, journals and academics are increasingly concerned about the attempts of some industries to distort the science.
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A tin pot dictator plunders billions from his blighted nation’s treasury. Sensing he’ll soon be exiled, amid public relations fanfare, he offers ill-gotten millions to a local university for a new school…

This week The Guardian published a long-form profile by veteran journalist Gideon Haigh of Dr Bronwyn King. I wrote a column about her last October when her efforts to persuade the Australian superannuation…

Very few smokers are willing to seek anything more than brief assistance.
RaulLieberwirth/flickrJuly 7, 2016

The New Zealand government has decided to reorient its priorities in tobacco control. It has announced it will be pulling 73% of its previous funding support for tobacco control advocacy. The only money…

Many thousands of people stop and reduce their smoking every year.
Raúl Villalón/FlickrOctober 14, 2015

As smoking continues its inexorable southward journey toward single-digit percentages of populations being smokers, it’s common to hear people say the smokers who remain are all “hard core”, heavily dependent…

Imagine you were about to buy a property and were advised that in two years time, a major freeway would be built two hundred metres away, greatly diminishing the value of your purchase. Then imagine you…

The tobacco industry used advertising to sell – rather than convey – its message in its lobbying tactics.
AAP/Joe CastroJuly 27, 2015